hierophant
(en)
a person, especially a priest in ancient Greece, who interprets sacred mysteries or esoteric principles
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The ineffable utterance of one solitary man, absent, perhaps dead (Swann did not know whether Vinteuil was still alive), breathed out above the rites of those two hierophants
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10 months, 1 week ago
Was romance hierophany, or some fowler’s snare that yanked a culture by the toe?
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2 years, 6 months ago